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I need to somehow enforce a mental pre-committment to blog daily. It’s been almost half a year and I have a huge backlog of thoughts I would like to commit to permanent long term storage. Thus, a commitment plan to some upcoming future posts: In October/November of last year(2010), I researched VR HMDs and explored the idea…

The long term future may be absurd and difficult to predict in particulars, but much can happen in the short term. Engineering itself is the practice of focused short term prediction; optimizing some small subset of future pattern-space for fun and profit. Let us then engage in a bit of speculative engineering and consider a potential…

In the 19th century it was railroads, in the 1920’s it was the automobile, and more recently computerization and the internet have driven huge inflationary growth booms. But in a world where the money supply is largely fixed and stable, inflationary growths are naturally limited and expected to be followed by recessionary contractions. Unfortunately people…

Tulips Around four hundred years ago the Tulip was introduced into Europe from the Ottoman Empire. The flower’s spectacular colorful variations of patterned petals, now understood to be caused by a type of Mosaic Virus, quickly endeared the bulbs to the wealthy classes as status symbols. The dutch market in futures contracts which emerged for…

It occurred to me while eating breakfast this morning that today we should have what is required to solve the diet problem and perhaps reshape healthcare as a result. The human body is complex. It has evolved to robustly regulate metabolism and growth along a very exact predetermined developmental trajectory using a wide variety of organic materials.…